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Japan Policy Week with the US-Japan Research Institute
Twice a year, the Japanese university-supported US-Japan Research Institute holds a series of policy programs in Washington, DC. The first Japan Week will be held February 23-March 3.ALGAE FOR BIOFUELS...
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Prime Minister of Japan’s Schedule November 17-23, 2014
Monday, November 17, 2014AM(Local time in Brisbane, Australia)Conference with Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong at Novotel Brisbane Hotel in Brisbane, AustraliaDepart from Brisbane Airport on...
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Monday in Washington, February 23, 2015
2015 CLIMATE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE. 2/23-2/25. Sponsors: The World Resources Institute; The Climate Registry; Association of Climate Change Officers; Center for Climate and Energy Solutions. Speakers:...
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Just what is Japan's postwar?
EDITORIAL: Opposition must push Diet debate in postwar landmark yearThe Asahi Shimbun, February 18, 2015The ongoing debate in the Diet inevitably turns our attention to the significance of Japan’s 70...
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Get your petition on for a message to the Abe Government
The Abe government believes that only the Koreans and the Chinese are annoyed with his administrations perceptions of history and responsibility. This is not true. Below are a number of petitions...
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There is liberation in defeat: a lesson for Japan
From 1939 Weizsäcker served in the Potsdam Infantry Regiment 9,which belonged to the 23rd Infantry Division. He took part in the invasion of Poland and the struggle against the Soviet UnionJapanese...
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Monday in Washington, March 2, 2015
AIPAC POLICY CONFERENCE 2015. 3/1-3/3. Sponsor: American Israeli Political Action Committee (AIPAC).BUILDING A CAREER OVERSEAS WITH USAID. 3/2, 9:00-10:30am. Sponsor: CSIS's Project on US Leadership in...
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Mongolia & The Koreas
A Potential Breakthrough in Mongolia’s Relations With North and South KoreaBy: Mendee JargalsaikhanyFirst published by the Jamestown Foundation's Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 12 Issue: 38March 2,...
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Comfort Women are France's fight too
[Japan's] Stance on ‘comfort women’ undermines fight to end wartime sexual violenceBY KAYOKO KIMURAMAR 4, 2015Today, no one would deny that the following case is a war crime and that these acts...
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When Ambassador Reischauer was stabbed in Japan 1964
The slashing of US Ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert is not without precedent. On March 24, 1964, as then-US Ambassador to Japan Edwin Reischauer was leaving the US Embassy in Tokyo he was...
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Japan demanded control over China in 1915, and failed
final agreement accepting modified demandsCentennial lessons for Abe from the ’21 Demands’by Jeff Kingston, Temple Universityfirst published by The Japan Times, March 7, 2015Prime Minister Shinzo Abe...
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Monday in Washington, March 9, 2015
BEGINNING A NEW ERA: INDIA'S UNION BUDGET 2015-2016. 3/9, 8:45-10:00am. Sponsor: Peterson Institute for International Economics (IIE). Speaker: Arvind Subramanian, Chief Economic Advisor to the...
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New York Programs on Comfort Women - Carpe Diem
Today is International Women's Day. For ten days, from March 9 to 20, the 59th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women takes place at United Nations Headquarters in New York. It will be a...
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Abe's history committee defuses responsbility
Commission impossible for Abe’s foreign policyBy Michael Cucek, Temple University JapanOriginally published in East Asia Forum, 3 March 2015On 25 February, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe convened...
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Happy Science and those who speak out against the Comfort Women
Mystery has always surrounded the upsurge of denier history in Japan. Generally, Japan's "truthers," those who believe Japan's war history and totalitarian state has been wrongly maligned, were on the...
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Understanding Sexual Violence in Conflict, Program March 12th
Memorial to the ComfortWomenin Chiba Prefecture, Japanerected 1973Understanding Sexual Violence in Conflict: Regional Views of the Comfort Women LegacyFeaturingShu-Hua KangTaipei Women’s Rescue...
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Chancellor Merkel talks to Japan
Speech by Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel during the event hosted by the newspaper Asahi Shimbun in cooperation with the Japanese-German Center Berlin in Tokyo9 March 2015Ladies and gentlemen,First of...
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Monday in Washington, March 16, 2015
ADVANCING CLIMATE-RESILIENT DEVELOPMENT SYMPOSIUM. 3/16, 9:00am. Sponsors: Wilson Center's (WWC) Environmental Change and Security Program; US Agency for International Development. Speakers: Kit...
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American POWs of Japan remind Abe and the US Congress of what is important
Statement for the Recordto theSenate Veterans' Affairs Committee and House Veterans' Affairs Committee Joint Hearing To Receive Legislative Presentations of Veterans Service Organizations By Ms. Jan...
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